Sacred Treasure
- Jeremy Begbie on cracking form on what makes JSBach’s music so revolutionary: the feeling of life in this world as a believer
- Remarkable letter from Albert Einstein to his 11 year old son about the secret to learning.
- Jessie Tang on why ‘colourblindness’ doesn’t help the church. (HT Chris Howles)
- Just love this: practical missiological applications from the archaeology of the 7 Churches of Asia Minor (HT Chris Howles)
- The problem of Karmic Christianity
Topical Treasure
David Brooks on the state of US Political life: I Should have Seen This Coming- Freya India is often worth reading. Here she is really onto something: in an age of therapy-speak, Nobody has a Personality anymore.
- Yes the world is in turmoil – but is this the end of a (generally) rules-based international order? Patrick O. Cohrs identifies ways by which to preserve at leastsome of it…
- Ian Leslie’s powerful, much-shared substack, 27 Notes on Growing Old(er)
- The British Library has just acquired some truly remarkable Mediaeval Manuscripts from Longleat.
- Fascinating and not something I’d given much thought to: the layouts of the world’s parliaments.
- Think you’re the centre of the world? Now you can put your country at the centre! (it’s actually quite helpful to put others at the centre to see what it does to yours for a change!) (HT Chris Howles)
Quirky Treasure
- Regulars will know that I have a soft spot for artists who use the natural world. Here is some of Jon Foreman’s work
- Incredible sand sculptures by Italian artist Leonardo Ugolini
- 40 extraordinary architectural wonders from the past
- 30 incredibly rare collectors’ pieces
- Amazing: 60 classic Film Noirs online for FREE viewing… (follow links on that page for 100s of other streamable films)
- I love this geometric light installation in Mason City by HYBYCOZO (Beaulieu & Filipchuk)
